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TO listen to opposing sides in a polarised debate, February 14, 2013, could go down in European business history as a St Valentine’s Day Massacre of Europe’s capital markets or as the start of a beautiful love affair with regulation that could help to prevent speculative trading turning boom to bust.…

IN Britain clinical research costs a whopping GBP8 billion or more annually, making up third of all research and development expenses in the economy, says the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC) group. But clinical research nurses (CRN) who play a crucial role in such work, are in short supply.…

PURCHASING cosmetics through business-to-consumer (B2C) group-buying websites offering national and local discount deals from third party vendors is catching on in key markets worldwide and positively blossoming in China, but with different nuances according to location. Cosmetics deals are popular on these sites throughout Asia, according to Shanghai, China based Dataotuan.com…

NOONE has been hanged for fraud in England since 1811, but not every country is so advanced:  today the death penalty is still applied for people convicted of fraud in China, Iran and North Korea among others. And even below the ultimate sanction, deterrents to committing fraud can look frightening in many countries of the world.…

FOR critics who claim financial reporting is boring – accounting professionals should point to Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page. He has created a unit with a limited staff and budget, taking on a government with a taste for secrecy, and still released reports revealing cost assessments that have made headlines.…

SPORTS regulators, police and other ‘actors’ in the emerging global scandal over match-fixing and other forms of bribery, fraud and corruption need more dedicated accounting skills in-house to prevent, detect and prosecute offences.

“Sporting institutions are behind the curve and need specialists including people trained in forensic accounting within them,” said Dr Graham Brooks, a leading independent analyst of sports crime, and senior lecturer at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies (ICJS) at the University of Portsmouth, in southern England.…

THE BRITISH government is creating a unique regime of energy price incentives to spur commercialisation of carbon capture and storage systems, yet significant barriers remain to unlocking the billions of Pounds Sterling needed to build a CCS industry of sufficient mass in the UK able to create economies of scale for investors.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

COATINGS companies worldwide are developing lower temperature curing systems for powder coatings, enabling them to be applied to wood and/or plastics. Also, new acrylic resins to avoid powder coating contamination problems are being developed, Polymers Paint Colour Journal has been told.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS, IN CALGARY

Dr Tarnia Taverner, assistant professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Nursing knows the transition from British to Canadian nursing is not seamless. She came to Canada from England 10-years-ago as a clinical nurse, when her British army officer husband was posted in Alberta.…

BY ROBERT STOKES

SMALL and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the European Union (EU) complain they cannot get finance from banks, or not on reasonable terms. Banks counter that there is just not that much demand.

Politicians have responded with schemes to improve the flow of finance to SMEs.…